New Delhi, May 9: The Indian paddlers, nearing the homestretch, assured themselves of six more medals in the ongoing 19th edition Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships at the Thyagraj Stadium here today. They had earlier won silver (men) and bronze (women) medals in team events.

The hosts, in fact, went past the tally seven—one gold (men’s doubles), two sliver and four bronze medals —they won at Glasgow championships in 2009 to rewrite the record. They could be more surprises coming India’s way provided our men do well in the singles quarterfinals slated for later this evening.

As of now, the Indians are assured of two medals in women’s doubles, two in women’s singles and one in men’s doubles, besides in mixed doubles event, the final of which is the last event of the day.

India had several positives on the penultimate day. To begin with, Soumyajit Ghosh and Mouma Das made the mixed doubles final, beating top seeds from Singapore, Yang Zi and Yu Mengyu, 11-9, 11-6, 12-10 in the semifinals. They will now take on the other Singaporean pair of Zhan Jian and Zhou Yihan in the title clash to be held later Thursday.

Indeed, the duo’s performance in the morning was so good that it rubbed on the other Indians who put up a sterling showing in the afternoon. Veteran Mouma Das, in particular, came up with fine display, entering the women’s singles and doubles semifinals, to add to her personal medal count after having helped the team to a bronze medal on Wednesday.

Mouma defeated England’s Joanna Parker 3-1 in the women’s singles and before that she combined with K. Shamini to go past Malaysian duo or Lee Wei Beh and Sock Khim NG 3-1 (11-3, 10-12, 11-7, 11-7) while the Neha-Madhurika pair sent compatriots Divya Deshpande and Pooja Sahasrabudhe packing with straight game win (12-10, 11-4, 11-3). Earlier, Neha Aggarwal and Madhurika Patkar also won their respective quarterfinals.

Defending men’s doubles champions Sharath Kamal and Subhajit Saha were also through to the semifinals.